I'm 27, and just like my father, my hair has been balding in the front and on top for several years now...

I gave up on hoping it'd grow back, and letting it go w/out a haircut made me look like a mad professor, with tufts on the side & back, so I wound up getting it buzzed ("A 1 & a half", I believe, is the clipper size terminology my salon person used for the thinness they trimmed it down to... And ironically, I was just told by a girl yesterday that it was very attractive, so I found that the way to be an effective way of dealing with having thin hair in the front & on top, and making it look naturally buzzed & short;